In June, 180 ladies attended the 9th Annual School of Garden Design fundraising breakfast at the Kloof Country Club in aid of the Sunflower Fund.
Tanya Visser, editor of the Gardener Magazine, was the guest speaker and she took the ladies on a visual and highly entertaining journey through this year’s Chelsea Flower Show. She awarded the prize for the best floral arrangement from recycled materials to Jeanette Stokes and thanked all the ladies who made such an enormous effort.
After a very moving DVD that paid tribute to the kindness, compassion and selflessness of humanity, Stephanie Berry, PR Manager of The Sunflower Fund in Durban, encouraged guests to embrace the characteristics of a Good Samaritan by becoming bone marrow stem cell donors.
Through the generosity of all present, the event raised R17 300 which will be used by The Sunflower Fund to build the South African Bone Marrow Registry. The more donors on the Registry, the more hope children and young adults diagnosed with leukaemia have of finding their 1:100 000 life-saving donor match.
A big thank you to host Lindsay Gray, guest speaker Tanya Visser, DJ Vivian Westergreen, Lemontree Concepts and Plant & Flowers as well as all the prize and goodie bag item sponsors and the staff from the Kloof Country Club for making the morning possible.
For more information on becoming a bone marrow stem cell donor visit www.sunflowerfund.org.za or call toll free 0800 12 10 82.